Lowrance h2o

[calli4120]

I'm looking for a handheld GPS and dont have much to spend. Are there any other big advantages to the h2o C vs. the black and white model besides the obvious display differences?

[riverview]

I bought the h2oc this spring, I use the chip and the colors make it easier to read depths and tracks. Im thinking lawrance is comeing out with something new because the h20c has dropped 150.00 since i bought mine.

[TJS]

hey riverview do you know where they still have the H20c's? I can't seem to find them and I am hearing that they discontinued that line.

[riverview]

before christmas they were at the major sporting goods stores in grand forks and e grand forks.

[TJS]

Thanks for the info. I will keep looking.

[fishermatt]

I have the plain H2O, and it's a great unit but it's really hard to tell the depths unless you zoom way in. I think the color unit would make that quite a bit easier. I can see all the depth lines, but I can't tell if it's deeper or shallower because it's all the same color. Once you zoom way in then it displays more of the depth numbers, but if you're zoomed out to see where you are in relation where you're heading, it's hard to tell the depth. If I was going to buy again I'd definitely get the color unit.

[jimmyjames76]

I've had both, and I very much prefered the color unit. Like others have said, I think it's easier to spot the depth contours. That said though, the B&W version will work fine too and you might be able to find a good deal on one.

[walleyewild]

B&W unit doesn't eat the batteries as fast, is the biggest difference, don't need the backlight on in the daytime.

It is a little harder to read the contours zoomed out but I have the 337c set up on a blue box with the gps antenna so I don't use my b&w ifinder as much.

WW

[hopeforfish]

Is there a map chip that I can buy just for road navigation? I tend to take a lot of backroads and only the major roads ore on the navionics chip.

[jeff9273]

I just bought an H20, and I love it. I don't have any problems reading the contours. I'm sure the color unit offers some advantages (as others have noted above) but it just wasn't worth the extra $100 for me.

[jimmyjames76]

Is there a map chip that I can buy just for road navigation? I tend to take a lot of backroads and only the major roads ore on the navionics chip.

I think the lakemaster chip has more backroad detail than the Navionics. Maybe topo maps too? I think with topo maps you'd end up swapping between chips though, so that wouldn't be ideal.

[PierBridge]

Originally Posted By: hopeforfish

Is there a map chip that I can buy just for road navigation? I tend to take a lot of backroads and only the major roads ore on the navionics chip.

I think the lakemaster chip has more backroad detail than the Navionics. Maybe topo maps too? I think with topo maps you'd end up swapping between chips though, so that wouldn't be ideal.

Yes any Lakemaster chip has outstanding road and back road maps along with WMA's and the such.

[Capt'nMorgan]

h2oC is not that bad on batteries, I thought they would eat batterys up in and hour or so but not true, I have had mine on while driving and it ran for close to 4 hours,